And Iwonder if the French are into political correctness, since all their nouns are either masculine or feminine?

It must be a Latin thang since Spanish likewise has feminine and masculine nouns. I've tried to teach my wife a little Spanish over the years. She gets frustrated over objects being gender specific. Sorry, that's just the nature of the beast.

Be who you are and say what you feel in your heart. Because those that matter, don't mind. And those that mind, don't matter.

In Spanish there are even some words that change gender depending on whether they're singular or plural. The word "agua" (water) comes immediately to mind. The singular "el agua" (the water) uses the male "el", while the plural "las aguas" (the waters) uses the plural female "las". There are other words, but that's the first one that comes to mind. I suppose every language has its foibles.

Be who you are and say what you feel in your heart. Because those that matter, don't mind. And those that mind, don't matter.

In American PC, we authors try to avoid the generic "he" in a number of ways. Often we write with "they," meaning whoever the person is of whatever gender. Some use he or she, and others alternate he and she, either method jarring me. I often end up recasting the sentence to avoid the personal pronoun entirely.

Yes, the surgical cure is far worse than the grammatical disease.Just another twisted effort at humor on my part. In fact, I have developed an orthopedic condition as a result of such "twisted" efforts.